Over the weekend, a leaked White House draft on immigration reform prompted many in Congress to discuss bipartisanship on the hot-button issue of immigration and President Obama’s role in reform.

The draft, first reported by USA Today, would give the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants a path to becoming legal resident within eight years. The draft also includes employee verification measures for employers, more funding for security, and an application process for undocumented individuals in the country to stay if they had a clean record.

Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro on Sunday told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” it’s essential for both the executive and legislative branches to work together on a final bill, which he said, is still possible.

“I think there is a silver lining in this, which is that there’s a lot of commonalities between the two plans, including a path to citizenship,” the San Antonio representative said. “So I think there’s a lot to work with here.”

However others are not as optimistic.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was outraged by the leaked proposal and released a statement ensuring it would be “dead on arrival” if placed before Congress.

“It would actually make our immigration problems worse, and would further undermine the American people’s confidence in Washington’s ability to enforce our immigration laws and reform our broken immigration system,” he said.

Rubio is a part of the bipartisan group of eight senators working on immigration reform legislation to put before Congress.

President Obama has indicated if Congress fails to create legislation on immigration reform, he would offer up his own proposal.

“Of course if you are against something you pick a controversial item to highlight, like here border guards. In the DHS budget she is saying there is no waste or unnecessary items she can cut besides border guards. She is playing politics, let sequester go through and see what really happens. The amount of money that is to be cut is so small as to be meaningless in this huge budget.”